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Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros
Mar 8, 2011, 18 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (646 reads)
(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)

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"Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are the most influential distributions that use the Red Hat Package Manager. Although their influence lags behind that of Debian and Ubuntu, it is still strong enough that Fedora remains consistently in the top three most downloaded distributions on Distrowatch, and is the ultimate source of 50 (15%) of the 323 active distributions listed.

"Fedora, the successor to Red Hat Linux and perhaps the most influential distribution prior to 2000, is consciously produced as the source for other distributions. In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months.

"The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot. Since Fedora installs with SE Linux for security, the result is a distribution well-suited to server installations."

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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 5) - Architecture, infrastructure an
Mar 8, 2011, 17 :05 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (814 reads)
(Other stories by Thorsten Leemhuis)

"In certain situations, a small patch for 2.6.38 perceivably improves the response time of desktop environments. Transparent Huge Pages, on the other hand, simplify memory management, which is particularly relevant in terms of virtualisation and server software.

"On Tuesday last week, Linus Torvalds issued the seventh release candidate of Linux 2.6.38. Among other things, Torvalds mentioned a fix for a flaw in Btrfs that can potentially cause data loss in certain situations ? again, there was no indication of a final release date for 2.6.38.

"Nevertheless, the next version in the main development branch is approaching completion, and the Kernel Log will, therefore, gradually conclude its "Coming in 2.6.38" mini series; the penultimate part will discuss the advancements in terms of the kernel's architecture code, infrastructure and virtualisation. Part 1 and part 3 discussed the changes to the graphics hardware and network communication code; part 2 and part 4 revolved around file systems and storage. This week, the series will be concluded with an article on the kernel's audio, USB and video hardware drivers."

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Henry's Techno-Musings: "The Wit and Wisdom of Chairman John"
Mar 8, 2011, 16 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (721 reads)
(Other stories by Henry Grebler)

"Here's the deal. Chairman John has bought two ELVISes from HP, one for us and one for our remote satellite site. Originally, the technology was developed by IBRIX, which has since been acquired by HP. In essence, it's a NAS.

"But there seems to have been a slip between the cup and the lip.

"As I understand it, it can export NFS; it can export CIFS. But it seems that it can't export both at the same time: there's some sort of locking problem. HP can't guarantee that there won't be corruption.

"Why am I using such vague terminology? Well, I have discovered in the last few months that some people can have a Microsoft effect on me. OK, one particular person. I've discussed this with my colleagues. They agree that whenever there's a meeting with Chairman John, a fog of stupidity envelopes the room, reducing all participants to the IQ of cattle."

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